Lawrence Kohlberg conducted research on moral development, using surveys as his major source of assessment. He presented surveys with moral dilemmas and asked his subjects to evaluate the moral conflict. In developing his theory, he made an intensive study using the same survey techniques of the bases on which children and youths of various ages make moral decisions. He found that moral growth also begins early in life and proceeds in stages throughout adulthood and beyond which is until the day we die. Influenced by Piaget's concept of stages, Kohlberg's theory was created based on the idea that stages of moral development build on each other in order of importance and significance to the person. On the basis of his research, Kohlberg identified six stages of moral reasoning grouped into three major levels. Each level represented a fundamental shift in the social-moral perspective of the individual. At the first level, the preconventional level, concrete, individual perspective characterizes a person's moral judgments. Within this level, a Stage 1 heteronomous orientation focuses on avoiding breaking rules that are backed by punishment, obedience for its own sake and avoiding the physical consequences of an action to persons and property. As in Piaget's framework, ego-centrism and the inability to consider the perspectives of others characterize the reasoning of Stage 1. At Stage 2 there is the early emergence of moral reciprocity. The Stage 2 orientation focuses on the instrumental, pragmatic value of an action. Reciprocity is of the form, "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours." The Golden Rule becomes, "If someone hits you, you hit them back." At Stage 2 one follows the rules only when it is to someone's immediate interests. What is right is what's fair in the sense of an equal exchange, a deal, an agreement. At Stage 2 there is an understanding that everybody has his (her) own interest to pursue and these conflict, so that right is relative in the concrete individualist sense.
According to Lawrence Kohlberg in his "Stages of Moral Development-, Creon was acting at a Post - Conventional stage of morality. Lawrence Kohlberg describes those who are at this level as able to decide for themselves what is right and wrong and act according to their own thoughts and memories. ...
From the theories and studies of Lawrence Kohlberg, we can know that pressure changes the role of ideology, which from theories of social justice, will led morality becomes impossible. ... As more and more people in the world become immoral, from the theories and studies of Lawrence Kohlberg, we understand that people are divided in six different stages in the development of person's ability to deal with moral issues. ... As the second part of Kohlberg's studies shows us that outside pressure has a huge impact on decision-making. ... In the other hand, even if he/she stays wit...
Atticus unmistakably falls into a level six in Lawrence Kohlberg's Levels and Stages of Moral Development. ... Atticus's extraordinary high level of Kohlberg's theory shows here, he can not only reach out to the adults of Maycomb with his sound judgment, but the children of Maycomb as well. ... This shows how important moral values are to Atticus, this placing him again, at a level six on Kohlberg's theory of moral development. ... From the beginning of the book, Atticus starts out at the highest level in Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development, and he maintains hi...
Additionally, the theories of Lawrence Kohlberg will be overviewed as an ethical influence in the author's life. ... Lawrence Kohlberg was a professor at Harvard University and he became famous for his work on theory of moral development in 1970. ... Kohlberg's felt that most adults stayed at stage 2, which dealt with abiding by the laws. Although there are 6 stages, Kohlberg felt 3-5 were not reached by the majority of adults. ... Kohlberg's theories in my opinion are worth delving into and understanding. ...
There is much controversy on the topic of morality. People are constantly developing their morality throughout their lives. Some people reach higher "levels" of moral maturity, according to Lawrence Kohlberg. Those who have the highest level of moral maturity are considered to be "principled." Peopl...
Erich Fromm, Stanley Millgram, Murray Edelman, John Stuart Mill, Abraham Maslou, and Lawrence Kohlberg were all sociologists who came to conclusions regarding freedom, authority and obedience in government and society, which can be used to explain the wild behavior of a teen. ... According to Kohlberg's Classification of Moral Judgment, which charts the moral growth of humans, even a person who hasn't progressed past stage one knows not to violate social norms because such actions might bring unpleasant consequences. ... Lawrence Kohlberg developed a theory of obedience based on...
However, through the enforcement of ethical codes, people revoke to a basic level of thinking, judgment and acting as identified in Lawrence Kohlberg's pre-conventional level. ... It emphasises a feeling of a "moral community", seen before in Kant's work, and from which Kohlberg developed his post-conventional level, that allows people to apply their own reasoning to daily situations. ...
Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development differs significantly from Freud and Erikson's theory of psycho-sexual and psycho-social stages. While Kohlberg agrees that moral development begins in childhood, he believes that it continues into late adulthood (1973). Unlike Freud and Erikson, who argue that stage change is a result of biological development and socialisation; Kohlberg maintains that moral development is a product of maturation and the stages emerged from ones own thinking about moral problems (Crain, 1985). ... Unlike Kohlberg, Bandura does not regard people as p...
